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The reason Gun-Game disappeared was a huge and insurmountable bug. We we using a technique of "Flag Zapping" where first we would take away the flag you had, and then zap the new flag to you. Because of packet loss, sometimes a flag would fail to reach the tank it was sent to. This would be extremel...

We are very pleased to announce PROgressive FLAG Passion is coming out of it's testing phase today. Pro Flag Server Plugin by Zehra. Right now I'm using it with the old Passion map, but I have a map in development specifically designed for this plugin. Game play a significant change from anything th...

It's a new method of getting the flags to players. Instead of using "flag give" to remove the flag they had and then give them their new flag (we called this "zapping" flags and many times flags would fail to arrive because of packet loss), there are many small zones where flags are placed, and play...

I you look at the date of the first post in this thread, you will understand there are going to be some changes.

Progressive Flag Mode has returned!
I figured out a way to do it that i thought would be bug free, no problems with lag causing missed flags.
Zehra made the plugin. It works!
We will do some final perfecting of the levels and bring it back in a few days.

will it fly back to that zone after every drop? not just drops over pyramids?

How do you get a team flag to spawn at a location other than on the base? after a capture, of course.

Purple Panzer does almost all of his work in Visual Basic. My advice to you would be, since you are familiar with BZEdit, use that to deign the overall shape and playability of the map, then use a 3D editor to apply eye candy. Using modeltool to convert obj to bzw (including drawinfo) is not difficu...

This goes reeeeeaaaaaaaaaly nice with Apple's new "dark mode" in Mojave.

It's running now on port 4201 Passion Map. Still testing. Gotta turn on Open-FFA, and other changes.

This is coming back, and it's going to work this time.

Damn Godson, You are some kind of Nostradamus.
Did you figure that out all by yourself?

Spazzy made some bases in '08
There's another set like this, which is the same, but different... but I have not been able to find it.
Looks like it was used in a Hi-X variant. Maybe someone has it.

In the grenade plugin, we can make the size of the shockwave produced smaller than _shockOutRadius, (but not larger). This is done by ending the shock early. Also, the speed of the shock's enlargement can be controled.
Can this effect be applied to this plugin?

More than a little off topic, but here is something. http://images.planet-mofo.com/who/112707/

There are some other things we do, but we don't talk much (in public) about exactly how we do cheat detection.
A couple weeks ago I found out I was using something new for over six months, and I didn't even know about it. They snuck it in on me.

Good to see ya' BIYA, Yeah, more than a few of us are still here. Some things change, some stay the same. I'd say there's been a little bit of a resurgence, in the last eight months to a year. (a little). If I pay attention I see a lot of old timers showing up to poke around for a bit. Hope you stay...

fixedscale 0 0 doesn't look right to me, try fixedscale 2 2

but i guess you've already found your solution with texsize

You can also do this with a "fixedscale" texture matrix.
If you do that, you should know that by default, textures repeat every 8 units.

Code that Trepan had prepared but never made it into official source had this material option.
texautoscale 8 8 # world view generated texcoord scales

Reverse Geno only makes sense if you also have the Apocalypse plugin, which will not be released. Parts of the Apocalypse plugin have been released, like CaptureBonus. PlayerDB was hackalicious. It used to crash once a week, but blast improved it by modding bzfs itself (I think). Thanks Blast. Blast...

My invisible_noradar material This makes a box completely invisible, doesn't even cast a shadow, but it's still "there" for collision detection . May as well remove some other attributes while you're at it. I use this a lot. material name invisible_noradar color 0 0 0 0 noculling noradar noshadow no...

Yeah, the reverse geno flag is gone. I have been asked to clarify geno-ratios, the "bait" plugin. But I don't want to release the exact ratios, because players will game the system. # If a player has the number of minimum number of deaths AND their K/D ratio is # less than or equal to ratio specifie...

Some fun over the weekend. Since the introduction of the multiple-shot flags, we've had the problem of sometimes (fairly often) somebody else gets the points for your kill. This is caused by the extra shots (which are actually world weapons) over-writing the shot-ID-numbers of previous shots. The wa...

You may have to wait up to three minutes after a callsign goes NR (non-responsive) until the server automatically kills the connection. The reason you went NR will almost always be on your end, or somewhere in the middle, and only rarely will the server be at fault. If it's the server's problem, usu...

The King of the Hill (KOTH) plugin also springs to mind. I am very skeptical that you will be able to get any world weapon to do team checks, but the only reason I say that is.... If it was possible someone would have already done it. But having said that... I can't remember anyone WANTING to do tha...